On Wed, 07 Sep 2005, Luca PERSICO wrote: > I tried out your distro on a laptop PC (Pentium III 900MHz); it is not a > brand PC, it is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] PC, thus it is quite easy for me to have > trouble installing GNU/Linux on it, so that till now the only distro > that has been acceptable has been Slackware (both 9.1 and 10.1). > Recently, I decided to try also Debian because it appeared very > impressive (in the positive sense) to me, but I had a bad surprise which > I didn't find with Slackware instead: when I mount the floppy drive I > continuously receive the message: "Floppy unexpected interrupt" together > with some other strange indication like "sensei repl[80]". To try to > solve this problem I put the parameter "floppy=thinkpad" (even if it is > not a thinkpad) in the kernel options in GRUB, but without any success; > after that I tried the kernel parameter > "floppy=no_unexpected_interrupts" and even then I had no result at all. > Please, can you suggest to me a solution of any kind to this problem? > Take note that the kernel installed is the one obtained specifying > linux26 at the installation boot prompt; the problem arised also with > linux24 choosen at boot time at the beginning of the installation. > > Thank you a lot and many congratulation: Debian is really great! > > Luca "Killer Fish" PERSICO
i'm not aware that slackware patches its kernel, thout it was upstream. nor am i aware of any debian patch concerning the floppy driver. could you please post dmesg from both the 2.6 and 2.4 kernels after boot. thanks -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
